But part of the lead producers job is to do PR work for the game. The only reason you don't see Lionhead's producers up front doing PR is that Peter is better at it. But pretty much every video you see of Peter doing a demo, you'll see the project producer there too.
It is quite amusing how Ubi do play on that aspect, but it's not really any worse than what we do with Peter. Admittedly, we get way more online abuse than Jade has got. Doesn't make it any less wrong.
Hell, even Jeff gets it to a certain extent. It seems you can't have any kind og well known spokesperson in this industry without everyone thinking you're fair game for abuse.
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Would now be a good time to mention that whenever I see Molyneux interviewed my instinct is to kill him with fire?Flabio wrote:But part of the lead producers job is to do PR work for the game. The only reason you don't see Lionhead's producers up front doing PR is that Peter is better at it. But pretty much every video you see of Peter doing a demo, you'll see the project producer there too.
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Maybe she's in the process of making a name for herself. Is that allowed?disciple wrote: How many game producers can we name? I bet all of them have long histories and a list of games to their name as long as your arm!
What has Jade Raymond done?
We have Rod, Gorecki and others in this thread likening her to Miyamoto and Molyneux!!!
The *only* reason *I* know her is because she's good looking... and that's it!
Maybe this is my ignorance, if she deserves the recognition then fair enough, but does she?? I honestly have no idea!
I have to somewhat agree with disciple: I only know (of) her, because she's pretty and I can name no other game than Assassin's Creed that she's been involved with.
Have Ubisoft used her good looks to their favour? Certainly. Compare the hype of Assassin's Creed to that of many other AAA titles recently: Can you, of the top of your head, name the producer (creative or otherwise) for, say, Super Mario Galaxy? Crysis? Halo 3?
The cartoon is also rather tasteless, but it is certainly satire, and thus protected under any good definition of free speech I know of. The point could, of course, have been made in a more subtle and elegant way (the development team 'shop is good.) However, subtlety is not really a requirement for satire (and free speech in general: It only works if we can say the things people don't want to hear.)
So, yeah, the cartoon is a crass bit of satire. But that only makes the authors shitheads, not outright villains, and being a shithead does not mean forfeiture of your right to do satire (and I'll even admit to a snigger upon seeing the cartoon, but I'm a cynical bastard anyway.) In response, Ubisoft is trying a bit of bullying on their own, and unlike the makers of said cartoon, their case is not reasonable. Their lawyerbot attitude irks me more than a silly cartoon.
Have Ubisoft used her good looks to their favour? Certainly. Compare the hype of Assassin's Creed to that of many other AAA titles recently: Can you, of the top of your head, name the producer (creative or otherwise) for, say, Super Mario Galaxy? Crysis? Halo 3?
The cartoon is also rather tasteless, but it is certainly satire, and thus protected under any good definition of free speech I know of. The point could, of course, have been made in a more subtle and elegant way (the development team 'shop is good.) However, subtlety is not really a requirement for satire (and free speech in general: It only works if we can say the things people don't want to hear.)
So, yeah, the cartoon is a crass bit of satire. But that only makes the authors shitheads, not outright villains, and being a shithead does not mean forfeiture of your right to do satire (and I'll even admit to a snigger upon seeing the cartoon, but I'm a cynical bastard anyway.) In response, Ubisoft is trying a bit of bullying on their own, and unlike the makers of said cartoon, their case is not reasonable. Their lawyerbot attitude irks me more than a silly cartoon.
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I can.funkstar wrote:Have Ubisoft used her good looks to their favour? Certainly. Compare the hype of Assassin's Creed to that of many other AAA titles recently: Can you, of the top of your head, name the producer (creative or otherwise) for, say, Super Mario Galaxy? Crysis? Halo 3?
Ubisoft hasn't done anything more with Assassin's Creed than any other AAA game out recently. As people have said, Jade Raymond's only doing her job - other producers have done similar video interviews and stuff. It's only the additional cross-talk and blog posts discussing a pretty girl that have elevated things to silly levels.
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This taste of milk is almost gone
Still got my shame, but not for long
Been wrong so many times before
But never quite like this
Heard all, in the rain
But the rain all turned to piss
Feel like it's skin is part of mine
This taste of milk is almost gone
Still got my shame, but not for long
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That, I must admit, sounds very reasonable. It may simply be a case of a "pretty young thing" making us overreact.teamonkey wrote: Ubisoft hasn't done anything more with Assassin's Creed than any other AAA game out recently. As people have said, Jade Raymond's only doing her job - other producers have done similar video interviews and stuff. It's only the additional cross-talk and blog posts discussing a pretty girl that have elevated things to silly levels.
I suspect this is not the time to vent my "beatiful people are stupid because they don't have to convince other people that they are mating-worthy with their brain" theory, then...